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The questions I rise are:
How did NATO get involved in the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia?
What was the significance of the Balkan crises for NATO?
Why are United States and NATO still present in almost all former Yugoslavian republics?
What happened before, during, and after the wars in Croatia, Bosnia, and Kosovo, regarding the NATO alliance, can put some light on where are we now, and what the future holds. ...
The purpose of this paper is to show that NATO and US used the Balkan crises to show its power, and to strengthen the role of the West in post-bipolar era. Also, it briefly discusses the chronology of events in last ten years that occurred on the Balkan Peninsula. ... Allin: "NATOs Balkan interventions", 2003, Oxford University Press
Kosta Cavoski: "New World Order on the Balkan", 2001, BIGZ, Belgrade
I have also used other resources as the background:
Michael Adas, Peter N. ... Allin, Balkan crises showed the failures of the UN Peacekeeping in the early stage, which had brought the NATO intervention. She expresses that even NATO members were divided regarding the involvement of their troops, but, finally, they overcame some dissidence, and they have agreed that have to start taking sides, and in the case of Kosovo, the use of force is the only way to end these very complicated conflicts. Allin, ends with the conclusion that the Balkan crises were the warning to NATO that, if they want to stay strong, they will have to engage and be united. ... He is, however, accusing NATO and United States of their interference in the crises, and stating "NATO had its own reasons". According to Cavoski, the major reason of NATO intervention, lead by United States, is their ambition to impose as the only leaders of the new world order, in front of UN, in front of OSCE. ...
During the nineties the Balkan region was one of the major focuses of the international and especially European politics. Crises on the territory of ex-Yugoslavia, the war that later appeared in Croatia and Bosnia, and at last the war in Kosovo, which lead to NATO intervention in March 1999, have destabilized the whole region, the region with maybe the most conflicts in the world in the past decade. Efforts of international community to, at the beginning, prevent the war from the rising political crises, failed, and then, when the war came, international community neither had much efficiency in ending the war fast. Yugoslavian crises and what came before and after it have opened many questions – first, the issue of solving these conflict with political means, and later with the use of force, and second, with much deeper importance, the relations within European countries and United States, and their acting in the World affairs. Namely, the events exploded with Balkan crises have opened many issues regarding the character of international relations in post-bipolar period, as well as the way international institutions and community as a whole should act in resolving the conflicts in the World. ... During the whole crises, from the beginning in 1991 to the end in 1999, international community didn’t manage to achieve the fundamentals of this belief: to act fast but efficient in suppressing the use of force by one or both parties in the conflict, and to solve the problem through political negotiations; by this to prevent any humanitarian crises and to create mechanisms for helping the social and economical problems in the region; and the most important one to impose its authority upon the parties in conflict.
Approximate Word count = 2869
Approximate Pages = 11.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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